The story
Fiction and adapted settings written by Akitsora Gaming for this title, including invented dialogue and events. This is not a historical or folklore reference. The rules and specification tables define the gameplay and math.
Rain lashes the Hii River as eight great barrels of brewed sake line the bank.
When all eight heads fall fast asleep, the sacred sword springs forth from the tail.
I. A Stormy Night in Izumo
In the ancient myth-shrouded land of Izumo, torrential rain had swollen the Hii River for days on end. Behind the mist-covered hills coiled a colossal serpent with eight round, mischievous heads—the legendary Yamata no Orochi—each head peering down from the storm clouds with a fondness for strong sake and village uproar. Thunder rumbles across the swollen riverbanks of Izumo as torchlight flickers against the rain-slicked cedar fences.
This expansive eight-reel, four-row all-ways board places one of the serpent’s eight heads directly above each column of the grid. Beneath them spin sacred magatama beads, bronze mirrors, kagura bells, wooden combs, flame drums, and the storm god Susanoo himself, bridged across reels two through eight by the gleaming Sword Flash Wild. Every clash of steel and splash of sacred sake brings the ancient chronicle to life across the stormy eight-column battlefield.
II. Sake Barrels and the Totsuka Blade
To outwit the mighty creature without relying on brute force alone, the storm god Susanoo set a clever trap along the riverbank: eight fenced gates, each holding a brimming vat of eightfold-brewed sake. Landing enough Sake Barrel scatters anywhere on the grid springs the trap and launches the Orochi Hunt free spins. Thunder rumbles across the swollen riverbanks of Izumo as torchlight flickers against the rain-slicked cedar fences.
Above the eight columns, every serpent head displays its own stamina bar on its neck. Whenever a Totsuka Sword lands on a reel during the hunt, it strikes the head directly above to chip away its stamina—and if a Sake Cup lands on a reel first, that head turns rosy-cheeked and tipsy, taking double stamina damage from the next sword blow.
III. Sleeping Serpents Across the Reels
The moment any serpent head’s stamina drops to zero, stars spin around its dizzy eyes and it slumps fast asleep across its entire column on the board. From that spin until the end of the feature, the fallen head remains locked in place as a full-reel Sleeping Serpent Wild snoring through the storm. Thunder rumbles across the swollen riverbanks of Izumo as torchlight flickers against the rain-slicked cedar fences.
Every Sleeping Serpent reel carries its own multiplier, and whenever a winning way passes through multiple sleeping heads across the eight columns, their multipliers multiply together. With each additional head knocked into dreamland, another full column turns wild and the compounding multiplier climbs exponentially across the grid. Every clash of steel and splash of sacred sake brings the ancient chronicle to life across the stormy eight-column battlefield.
IV. All Eight Down and the Kusanagi Sword
Watching the eight heads topple one after another turns the free-spins round into a true mythic boss battle on the riverbank: every fallen head narrows the gaps between reels and floods the eight-column grid with sleeping wild columns and ways combinations on every turn. Thunder rumbles across the swollen riverbanks of Izumo as torchlight flickers against the rain-slicked cedar fences.
Should you knock out the final head so that all eight heads are asleep at once, the storm clouds over Izumo part at last. On the closing beat, the legendary Kusanagi Sword—the Sword of the Gathering Clouds of Heaven—bursts gleaming from the serpent’s tail to double the entire hunt’s accumulated prize. Every clash of steel and splash of sacred sake brings the ancient chronicle to life across the stormy eight-column battlefield.